Ed McMahon, famed sidekick to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" is hospitalized in Los Angeles in intensive care. A person close to him told AP Friday that McMahon has bone cancer.
Ed McMahon is 85. He has been been hospitalized for several weeks for treatment of pneumonia and other ailments, according to a spokesman.
Ed McMahon was John Carson second fiddle and ally on The Tonigth Show from 1962 until Carson's retirement in 1992. Every night he introduced Carson him with the familiar "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" He'd occasionally chime in with another familiar phrase, "Hiyo!"
Johnny Carson died in 2005.
Last year Ed McMahon faced foreclosure on his home; it's hard to believe that someone who worked as long in the entertainment industry would not have millions, but it just goes to show you how people that kind of money can spend, spend, spend.
His most recent set of commercials were shown during the Super Bowl, when he teamed with M.C. Hammer in a "Cash 4 Gold" commercial.
We wish him the best.
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